It’s Cujo meets The Breakfast Club with an all grow’d up Ally Sheedy skulking around Lance Henriksen‘s secret lab as a nosy TV reporter looking to expose the barbaric realities of the "vivisection industry."
Cue some seriously grody, though laughably phony footage of critters with exposed brainpans and electrodes crammed where they shouldn’t oughta be. Naturally, Ally absently befriends and frees "Max," a hyper-intelligent, Datsun-sized pooch that just happens to be genetically-engineered ARMAGEDDON with a tail!
Yet, for such a fearsome beast, Max sure is a hoot, such as when he swallows a kitty cat WHOLE like an anaconda, chews the brake lines of Ms. Sheedy’s sweetie, buries a mailman under a house and even finds time for some sequel-friendly canoodling with the Collie down the block.
Oh yeah, and he whizzes ACID!!! No wonder Lance will stop at nothing to get him back!